Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

catalogue 678 3. Jan van Eeckele (?) (Monogrammed JVE on the background architecture, not original?), Lactation of St Bernard , between 1534 and 1561 (?) Inv. no. 15 Panel: a single board, slotted into the groove of the frame. The panel is woodwormed; it is covered on the back with a non-original pink paint layer. Frame: grooved: with mortise and tenon joints, with mixed cuts at the front and cut square at the back, and with single peg reinforcements. The polychromy, with gilding right across the front of the frame, has been redone. Wood strips have been nailed to the outside of the frame in recent times. The characteristics of the joinery (frame profile, joints) appear to predate the generally accepted dating of the painting to the 16th century. The originality of the monogram should be questioned. The work probably dates from the 15th century.